Chapter 108\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nolan\u2019s voice cut through again, colder than steel. \u201cAs Alpha of Silver Fang, I strip you of all rights and privileges. You are banished, effective immediately.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shock rippled across the chamber, but my eyes stayed locked on Felicity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the first time, her composure cracked fully. She looked at Nolan as though he\u2019d ripped her heart from her body. Then her gaze slid to me, venomous, seething.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t over,\u201d she hissed. \u201cYou\u2019ll regret this.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The guards moved in, flanking her, but her eyes never left mine until the heavy doors slammed shut behind her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The chamber erupted-voices clashing, council members demanding explanations, warriors muttering in outrage. I sat frozen, hollow, every muscle taut.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019d hated her for years, but this was worse than anything I had imagined. Felicity hadn\u2019t just disliked me. She hadn\u2019t just schemed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She had wanted me dead. Wanted my children dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And Nolan\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nolan had carried this truth into the room like a blade and cut her from his life in one stroke. He hadn\u2019t taken her side. He hadn\u2019t made excuses or blamed me for driving her to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He banished her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When the meeting finally dissolved, people filing out in a tide of whispers and shaken faces, I didn\u2019t move. Not until it was just the two of us left in the room.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He stood near the far wall, his hands braced against the table, head bowed. The posture of someone who had just cut out his own heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I swallowed hard and forced my legs to carry me closer. \u201cYou didn\u2019t tell me you were investigating her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
His head lifted, and the look in his eyes nearly stopped me in my tracks. Grief. Rage. Guilt. All tangled together.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t,\u201d he said, voice rough. \u201cI couldn\u2019t risk her knowing I suspected her. She had too many eyes in this house already.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
My throat tightened. \u201cYou could have told me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
His expression softened then, in the smallest, saddest way. \u201cYou\u2019ve had enough burdens, Ellie. This one\u2026 I had to carry alone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I wanted to argue, but the weight in his voice silenced me. I pressed my arms around myself, feeling suddenly cold. \u201cShe said you swore something. That there\u2019s something only she knows. What did she mean?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
His jaw worked, his eyes flicking away. For a long moment, I thought he wouldn\u2019t answer. But then, quietly, he said, \u201cThere are things in my past\u2026 things I\u2019m not proud of. Things no one else can use against me-except her. She\u2019s the only one who knows.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fear stirred low in my belly. I\u2019d always known Nolan carried shadows, but hearing him admit it like this made them feel suddenly close, reaching for me too. \u201cIf she tells people-\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLet her.\u201d His voice was steel again, final and unyielding. \u201cWhatever truth she has, whatever poison she wants to spit, I couldn\u2019t keep her here. I won\u2019t risk her near you. Not again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Chapter 108\u00a0<\/p>\n
+25 Bonus\u00a0<\/p>\n
I could see it clearly in his eyes-he was devastated. Banishing her hadn\u2019t been some clean stroke of authority-it had gutted him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I reached out, laying a tentative hand over his clenched fist. \u201cNolan\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He looked at me, and for a heartbeat, the Alpha mask slipped. I saw the boy beneath, the man who had once trusted Felicity with pieces of himself he\u2019d never given anyone else.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My chest ached. I had secrets of my own, truths I was keeping from him even now. The knowledge that our sons were alive pressed heavily on my tongue, but I bit it back. He wasn\u2019t ready. I wasn\u2019t ready.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So instead, I gave him the only truth I could. \u201cYou did the right thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t answer, just looked at me with those storm-dark eyes, torn between fury and grief.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And in the silence that followed, the truth hung heavy between us: he had cut away a part of his past tonight, but the ghosts of it weren\u2019t gone. And both of us still carried secrets that could shatter everything if spoken aloud.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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A Cold Marriage That Turned Warm 108 Chapter 108\u00a0 Nolan\u2019s voice cut through again, colder than steel. \u201cAs Alpha of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-unremembered-mate-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}